I don't think the SSRIs are working any more.

[constance]

I've been making a Christmas CD as office gifts for my coworkers. Since they're for the most part older than I am, and to a person infinitely more conservative than I am, I've been limiting myself to the more traditional parts of my Christmas music while choosing a playlist; and as an antidote I've been breaking by listening to the indie-type stuff.

At some point during one of these breaks, I realized that a lot of the indie-type stuff is kind of, well. It's a downer, is what, whether it's whiny my-baby-left-me or just fucked in the head (although some of it's so over-the-top, purposefully or not, that it kind of crosses back over into festive and fun again).

Generations X and Y have some issues to work through as regards the holiday season, it seems.





download here

I recommend you get drunk before listening.

 

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

If you took more of a pop approach, you could get ten thousand variations on "Baby, if you'd date me, it would be a good Christmas, but otherwise nope." And also that last Christmas, I gave you my heart song that everybody has recorded, and which I swear only has about twelve words.

OTOH, if you want to be utterly traditional, you can have songs about how to keep a baby from being murdered by Herod; lots of foreshadowing of the crucifixion and comparing red things to blood; and big crowds of random drunken people demanding figgy pudding, so.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I am suddenly really liking the idea of having a "Man, This Christmas Really Blows" playlist meme, where everyone I know puts one together using the genre of her choice. I respectfully request from you the Utterly Traditional Babykilling and Blood Genre, if you feel you have the time! :D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Also, I think I could come up with a decent country mix, given the time and assuming I could mix traditional and alt-country genres.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a fantastic idea! Here's mine.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*jumps up and down*

It's downloading now. I can't wait to listen!!